I think, the Estimated Quality the reason. The left picture Quality is 99% and the right picture is 100%. The left picture contains lot of JPG artifacts and which is why it is perceived as different.
Yes, the Imagine (https://www.nyam.pe.kr/dev/imagine/) works perfect, I use this everyday.
Edit: I made some more tests, and I think I found the main problem: the UTF-8 characters. I use Hungarian language, and the path contains a special Hungarian character: "ő". If I remove this charater from the ...
XnView MP Windows Version 1.4.2 64bits (Jan 23 2023) OS: Windows 10 /64bit I configured the XnviewMP for the Total Commander (10.52) Lister, but cannot open the Webp pictures on network share with Lister. The network share assigned to a letter (e.x.: P:\).